A Slayerette's Slide
Chapter 2
Chandler Hotel
30 seconds after last chapter
"What!"
"Xander calm down," Wade said
"Why should I?"
"Because things aren't bad enough to warrant uncontrolled anger," Wade explained.
"I beg to differ," Xander shot back.
The argument would have continued on longer if not for the arrival of Quinn, Maggie, and Remy.
"Hey, you're finally awake," Quinn said as he walked over to the young man.
"You can send me back to my world can't you?" Xander instantly asked the physics major.
"Right to the point aren't you," Maggie said.
"Yup," Xander replied.
"Well Xander I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you," Quinn said as he pulled up a chair and sat down.
"What is it?" Xander sighed.
"We can't send you back," Remy told the young man.
"Why not, I thought you explained to me that the timer thingy could store world coordinates or something like that," Xander said while trying to remember everything the group told him about the timer.
"Usably it does, but for some reason it only has part of the coordinates of your world, and I have no idea how to get the rest," Quinn explained to the young man.
Xander sat for a minute, allowing the information to sink in before slowly rising and heading for the door of the hotel room.
"Where are you going?" Wade asked, concern evident in her voice.
"For a walk," Xander replied as he closed the door behind him.
"Shouldn't we go after him?" Maggie asked.
"No, he needs time to get used to the fact that we can't send him home, he'll come back when he's ready to talk," Remy answered.
Two hours later Xander walked back into the hotel room and sat down on the couch.
"Feeling better?" Wade asked the young man.
"Actually, yes," Xander replied.
"So you're not mad anymore?" Quinn asked.
"Nope, when I was out walking I did some thinking," Xander responded.
"Oh, about what?" Maggie asked.
"Well, I thought about things back home and I realized that I don't have a whole lot going for me there, bad grades, my friends no longer speaking to me, alcoholic parents, and of course demons and the like, then I realized that sliding could probably teach me alot of valuable life experience," Xander explained to the group.
"So you're saying that you want to continue sliding with us," Quinn said.
"Well, yeah, that is of course if you don't mind having me along" the younger man answered.
"The more the merrier," Rembrandt said answering for the group
"Cool, so when do we slide?" Xander asked.
"Nine o'clock tomorrow morning," Quinn responded after checking the timer.
"Alright, so who's up for grabbing some dinner?" Rembrandt asked the group.
Soon the five interdimensional travelers were seated at the restaurant on the ground floor of the hotel.
"So anything big I should know now that I'm a slider?" Xander asked the group.
"Yeah, the first casualty of sliding is dignity," Rembrandt said to the young man, earning a laugh from everyone but Xander.
"What do you mean?" Xander asked the group.
"You'll see," Quinn responded.
"Ok, anything else?"
"Always be careful when you first land on a world, it could have dramatically different customs and laws than your own." Quinn answered.
"Gotcha," Xander replied as their food was delivered.
Soon the group had finished their meal and then retired back to their room in order to get as much sleep as they could before the morning slide. The next morning at roughly eight forty five the group of sliders were all awake and moving around the room to make sure they didn't forget anything.
"Hey, what happened to my sword and crossbow," Xander asked the group.
"The crossbow we had to leave behind and he hid your sword under the couch," Wade responded as she picked the travel bag she had purchased on Xander's world.
Xander walked over to the couch and sure enough underneath it sat his sword. The young man quickly grabbed his sword and attached it too his belt before putting on a trench coat he had purchased the night before for the purpose of hiding the weapon.
"Alright everybody hurry it up, we got five minutes," Quinn called out as he put on his own coat.
Soon the group had gathered up everything that they needed and were ready to slide.
"Alright, ten seconds," Quinn said as he watched the timer count down. When the timer hit zero Quinn held out his hand and pressed the button activating the vortex. "After you!" Quinn called out, gesturing to Xander.
"Here goes nothing," Xander mumbled under his breath as he ran forward and jumped into the tunnel, followed closely by the other sliders.
Unknown Location
9:00 AM
As Xander emerged from the vortex he noticed two things. One he was in a club, and two, he has flying on a collision course with the bar.
The rest of the group landed relatively safely on the dance floor of the club and quickly looked around to get their bearings.
"Where's Xander?" Wade asked as she looked around the club, quickly noticing the three shocked women sitting at the bar. "Uh oh," the red head mumbled as she quickly began thinking up cover stories.
"Hi there," Quinn said, breaking the stunned silence. "You're probably wondering what just happened,"
"Yeah," One of the women replied.
Before Quinn could responded a groan was heard from behind the bar as Xander stood up.
"For the record, wood is very hard on this world," Xander said as he then noticed the three women.
"What the hell is happening, who the hell are you, and how the hell did you end up in my club?" the second woman shouted.
"Well, this can't get any worse," Maggie said.
Before anyone else had a chance to say anything four pillars of fire appeared in the room and quickly faded away to reveal three demons, which immediately started throwing glowing blue balls at the group.
"Spoke to soon!" Maggie yelled as she jumped to the side, narrowly avoiding one the balls.
The only people in the room who reacted were Xander and the three women. Xander quickly leaped over the bar and unsheathed his katana while the first woman who spoke raised her hand and sent one of the demons flying into a wall.
Xander ran forward and decapitated the demon the woman had sent flying into the wall and then turned to find another target but before he could react the remaining three froze in place seemingly by magic.
"Cool," Xander said as he inspected the frozen demons.
"What? Why didn't they freeze?" the second woman asked the other two as she looked at the group of sliders.
"Are you okay?" Wade asked Xander, ignoring the woman's questions.
"Yeah, just a little lump on the head," Xander replied as he walked over to the trio of women.
"Hi, the names Xander;" the young man said as he approached the women. "And you are probably wondering about how me and my friends ended up here,"
"Yes," the third woman finally spoke up. "But we should probably get rid of the demons before we start playing twenty questions,"
"You're probably right," Xander said as he walked over to the remaining demons and cut off their heads.
"So, we should probably explain things," Quinn said to the three women.
"Ya think"
"Well for starters, I'm Quinn Mallory," The scientist introduced himself. "And this is Rembrandt Brown, Wade Wells, Maggie Beckett, and Xander, who already introduced himself," Quinn said, pointing at each person in turn.
"And you are?" Xander asked.
"I'm Prue Halliwell and these are my sisters Piper and Phoebe." Prue said to the group.
P3
9:15 AM
"So you're from another planet?" Phoebe asked the group.
"No, we are from Earth, just different Earth's than this one" Quinn answered.
"So if you're from different dimensions how did you get here?" Prue asked.
"I invented I device that has the ability to open a tunnel to parallel worlds, but when I activated the vortex early we lost the coordinates to our home world," Quinn explained as he showed the trio of women the timer.
"So now you're trying to get back to your world?" Piper asked as she handed the timer back to Quinn.
"Actually I'm in no rush to get back to mine," Xander said to the women.
"Why not?" Phoebe asked, confusion evident in her voice.
"My parents are probably the two worst people on the planet, I live in a town that was built on top of the mouth of hell, and my friends want nothing more to do with me," Xander explained while cleaning the demon blood of off his sword.
"If this place is so bad then why do the rest of you want to go back?" Prue asked.
"Xander and Maggie are from different worlds then Wade, Remy, and I," Quinn answered.
"And since my world was destroyed I don't really have anyplace to go," Maggie said to the group.
"That sucks," Phoebe responded.
"It sure does,"
"How come you didn't freeze like the demons did?" Piper asked.
"What do you mean?" Quinn asked
"My power lets me freeze people, I want to know why you didn't," Piper answered.
"I'm guessing it's because we're from another dimension then yours," Quinn answered the witch.
"So since we answered your questions how about you answer some of ours?" Remy asked the women.
"Shoot," Pure replied.
"What city are we in?" Quinn asked.
"San Francisco," Phoebe replied.
"How did you send a demon flying into a wall?" Xander asked, turning to face Prue.
"We're witches," Prue replied.
"Prue!" Piper and Phoebe yelled.
"What? He knows about demons and he did help us out," Prue said in defense.
"And if it makes any difference I have met witches before," Xander said in Prue's defense.
"You have?" Piper asked.
"Yeah, back on my world, my former friend is a witch in training, and my old computer teacher was a gypsy and a techno pagan," Xander explained as he leaned against the bar.
"So, when do you leave?" Phoebe asked.
"We slide in eight hours," Quinn answered.
"Alright, so what do we do until five fifteen tonight?" Xander asked the other sliders.
"I vote we start with breakfast and decide something later," Remy said as got off the stool we was sitting on.
"There's a nice place around the corner, we were about to get some food ourselves, you're welcome to come," Prue said to the transdimensional travelers.
"Sounds good to me," Quinn said as the group got up and walked out of the nightclub.
"So how are the worlds you've been to different from your home worlds?" Phoebe asked after the group had placed their orders.
"Well, sometimes it's just something small and other times it is something huge," Remy answered.
"How so?" Piper asked.
"Well their was a world we went to where San Francisco was a maximum security prison, another one where it was a preserve for dinosaurs, and my least favorite, a world where all the men where held against their will in breeding camps," Quinn answered.
"Breeding camps?" Xander and Maggie asked at the same time.
"Don't ask," Remy responded as their food showed up.
The rest of the meal was mostly in silence except for the odd question every now again. Soon the group had finished eating and then left the restaurant. As they were walking down the street Phoebe tripped and began to fall but was caught by Xander before she hit the ground.
"You okay?" Xander asked the witch who did not answer him, instead she was staring off into space with a horrified look on her face.
Piper and Prue quickly moved over to their sister, knowing full well that she had just had a premonition, and not a pleasant one judging by the look on her face.
"What did you see?" Prue asked her younger sister.
"I saw us die," Phoebe said.
Halliwell Manor
10:00 AM
"What do you mean you saw us die?" Maggie asked the witch as the group was led through the front door and into the living room.
"Sometimes I get visions of future events and when Xander grabbed me a saw a vision of a group of demons sacrificing all of us except Xander," Phoebe explained as she sat down on the couch.
"Why not me?" Xander asked as she sat down next to Phoebe.
"I don't know," Phoebe answered.
"This is bad isn't it?" Wade asked as she sat down next to Xander.
"Yup," Xander replied, already thinking of ways to help his new friends.
"So what do we do to make sure this vision doesn't happen?" Quinn asked the three sisters.
"Well, we start by finding out what type of demon they are," Prue said while looking over at Phoebe. "Do you remember what they look like?"
"They look like the ones that attacked us at the club earlier," Phoebe answered.
"Alright then, I'll go check the book and see if it says anything," Piper said as she walked up the stairs.
"What book?" Quinn asked the two remaining witches.
"A book we have that has information about various different demons," Prue said, being careful not to reveal too much about The Book of Shadows.
A few minutes later Piper came back down the stairs with a folded piece of paper in her hand.
"There called Kinove demons, they're part of a cult that is trying to open a gateway to hell by means of a ritual that involves a sacrifice of three witches and four innocent souls," the middle sister explained to the group.
"How do we kill them?" Phoebe asked.
"Well from what we saw at the club a sword works wonders, but there is also a vanquishing potion," Piper explained to her sister.
"Alright then, lets make this potion, then find the demons so we can kill them before they kill you," Xander said while getting off the couch and following the three sisters into the kitchen leaving the rest of the sliders behind.
"You know what?" Quinn asked the group.
"What?" Wade asked.
"None of what they just said seems the least bit odd to me," he responded with grin before walking into the kitchen.
Halliwell Manor
11:00 AM
"Alright the potion is done," Piper said as she started grabbing empty potion on bottles and began pouring the green liquid into them.
"Now, how do we find the demons?" Wade asked.
"Knowing our luck, they'll probably find us," Prue said as she grabbed a couple of the potion bottles.
About half a second later seven pillars of fire appeared in the room and died away to reveal seven of the same demons that attacked them at the nightclub. The demons didn't waste anytime and quickly went on the offence by throwing glowing blue balls at the group.
"I hate it when I'm right!" Prue yelled as she dived into cover to avoid the energy balls.
Xander chose a more direct course of action by unsheathing his Katana and attacking the nearest demon. The young demon hunter was able to land a blow on the first demon that severed his head.
Using the distraction that Xander was giving them Prue, Piper, and Phoebe began throwing the potions at the demons. Xander, after seeing three demons go up in flames and disappear, figured out that the witches had the demon situational well in hand quickly scanned the room and saw the other four sliders ducking behind the counter in the kitchen.
Before Xander could move over to his friends he felt a sharp pain in his back and then fell to the ground unconscious.
Halliwell Manor
The kitchen looked like a tornado had gone through it. There was broken glass and wood everywhere as well as several burn marks on the floor and cupboards as well as one body lying on the floor.
"What the hell happened here?" a unknown man asked out loud as he looked at the destruction around him before walking over to the unconscious Xander.
Upon closer inspection the man saw that the body in front of him had a large burn mark on his back. Not wasting anytime the man put his hands over the mark and concentrated as energy began to flow out of his hands and heal the injury.
A few seconds later a groan was heard as the unconscious man began stirring.
"What hit me?" Xander asked as he sat up and looked around.
"Why don't you tell me," the man told him.
"Who are you?" Xander asked.
"My names Leo, what happened hear?" the man asked.
"The last thing I remember was being attacked," Xander replied as he slowly pulled himself too his feet.
"What did the demons look like?" Leo asked.
"How did you know it was demons?" Xander asked, surprise in his voice.
"Well, usually when the house looks like this it means there was a demon attack," Leo answered.
"Where are the others?" Xander asked.
"You were the only person here," Leo answered.
"That's bad," Xander asked as he picked up his sword.
"How so?" the whitelighter asked.
"Phoebe had a premonition of demons sacrificing her, her sisters, and my friends," Xander answered, very worried for the safety of his friends.
"Don't worry, I can still sense the sisters, that means that they haven't been killed yet," Leo said, trying to calm the young man down.
"What do you mean sense?" Xander asked.
"I'm a whitelighter," Leo answered, receiving a blank look from Xander. "Basically, I'm a guardian angel for good witches, now can we please worry about the matter at hand,"
"Alright, so what do we do?" Xander asked.
"We save them," Leo answered.
"I meant how do we save them, we do need a plan you know," Xander responded.
"Right, got any ideas?" Leo asked.
"Can you get us to where they are?" Xander asked earning a nod from Leo. "Alright then I have a plan, it's a crappy plan, but it's the best I can do under such short notice." Xander said before explaining the plan to Leo.
Demon's Layer
12:30 PM
"You sure this will work?" Leo whispered to Xander as they watched the demons moving around a large cavern with the three witches and the four sliders chained to one of the walls.
"No," Xander whispered back as he surveyed the room.
Two demons standing guard next to the prisoners, one standing over a table that had a large urn and a long dagger on it, and two more talking in the middle of the room.
"Five demons total, and we have two bottles of the potion," Xander said while handing the bottles to Leo. "Okay, you beam over to where the demons are guarding our friends and hit them with the potions, I'll provide the distraction." Xander said to the angel.
"It's called orbing," Leo told the young man
"Whatever," Xander shot back as he stood up and walked into the cavern. 'Here goes nothing,' the demon hunter thought as he yelled out to the group. "Pizza delivery!" Xander yelled, catching the attention of all the demons.
"Kill him!" the lead demon called out.
Soon energy balls were flying every which way and Xander was silently thanking all the years his gym teacher made him play dodge ball while he was weaving to avoid the balls.
It didn't take long for Leo to orb over to where the witches and sliders were being and use the two potions to kill the demons.
"Leo, are we glad to see you," Piper said as the whitelighter unchained them.
"Same here, now go help Xander," Leo responded as he began unchaining the sliders.
Not needing to be told twice, the three witches quickly ran over to where the demon hunter was dodging energy balls while trying to get close enough to use his sword.
Xander was relieved to see that Leo had set his friends loose but was then sad again as he tripped on a rock and saw an energy ball flying strait towards his head. Right before the ball hit Xander it suddenly changed course and flew back at the demon that threw it, causing the demon to die.
Looking over Xander was saw that Prue was using her powers to send the energy balls back at the demons, who were then forced to dodge their own attacks, and giving Xander the chance to regain his breath.
A few minutes later the last two demons where dead and the entire group was gathered in the center of the cave.
"Thanks for the save Xander," Remy said to the young man.
"Anytime," Xander responded as he put his sword away.
"That makes it three times you saved us," Wade told him as she hugged him.
"Like I said, anytime," the young man replied while returning the hug.
"So what say we get out of here, this place is giving me the creeps," Maggie said as she looked around the cave.
Halliwell Manor
5:10 PM
After the group had arrived back at the manor Piper made a large lunch for the entire group before. After the lunch the group then took the rest of the day too relax while swapping stories with the three witches.
When five o'clock rolled around the group of sliders began preparing to leave. Soon they had everything they needed and where getting ready to slide.
"Xander, before you go we wanted you to have this," Prue said as she held a small amulet on a cord out to the young man.
"What is it?" Xander asked as he took it.
"It's a protection amulet, our way of saying thanks for saving our lives," Phoebe answered.
"It's not the most powerful one out there but it should be able to create a pretty good shield for a few minutes," Piper explained.
"Thanks, I have a feeling that I'll be needing this," Xander said as he tied the cord around his neck.
"Alright people, time to go," Quinn said as he opened the vortex.
"Have a safe trip!" Leo called out as the five travelers jumped through into the transdimensional tunnel.
Unknown Location
6:00 PM
"Well, it could be worse," Xander said to the group as they hugged the wall of small ledge they were on that hung over a river of magma
"Xander,"
"Yeah Wade?"
"Shut up,"
End Chapter 2